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Efforts to improve vaccine uptake must be tailored to the needs and concerns of the individuals and families who make up society.
The key requirement of any mandate should be that a vaccination certificate be produced for access to high-risk spaces where harm to others could occur.
With such a sharp increase in global prevalence, it’s clear that diabetes is spiralling out of control. It can no longer be ignored.
Mandates should be considered only when all geographical, financial and cultural access issues have been addressed. They should be a last resort.
HIV services must be comprehensive to ensure that people take their medication as prescribed and avoid onward transmission of the virus.
Even before the advent of COVID-19, donors had begun to exit HIV programmes with increasing frequency.
To be effective, vaccine formulas need to cover all emergent strains. But there are still plenty of unknowns.
Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world. Financial barriers still prevent many families from getting the health services they need.
Manufacturing is just one part of the vaccine ecosystem. It’s the health system that delivers vaccines and people must be willing to take them.
The current spate of travel bans is rather hasty and irrational given that we know that the variant is in several countries already.
Stigma and criminalisation of same-sex relationships makes it difficult for transgender women and men who have sex with men to seek preventive services. This compounds their risk for HIV infection.
It is urgent and overdue to implement PrEP in pregnancy and during breastfeeding. Failure to do so allows ongoing avoidable HIV infection among women in South Africa and their infants.
Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.
The world needs to learn to live with the virus. And governments must follow the science and don’t distort it for political expediency.
There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. It has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants
Skin lighteners are being used more than ever before, especially in urban areas and among men.
The quest to find treatment for COVID-19, and the uncertainty surrounding the clinical outcome, necessitates the use of antibiotics in the treatment package.
The need of the moment is for low- and middle-income countries to improve their own manufacturing capabilities.
Insulin and oral medicines for diabetes are mostly not available at the recommended level in the African region.
It has long been clear that some countries have drug policies that cause harm and violate human rights.
Properly engaged and monitored, Nigeria’s private sector can do more in COVID vaccination exercise.
South Africa has a stringent pharmaceutical regulatory framework. But this framework is not backed by a strong implementation strategy.
Vaccination uptake is influenced by many factors and carries a variety of meanings – social, political, economic, ideological, moral as well as biological.
A combination of herbs in Nigeria should be evaluated further as it offers potential to treat malaria, which is endemic in the country.
Antimicrobial resistance kills around 700,000 people worldwide annually. It is a top-ten global health threat.